Sharon Cameron Quotes

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

History is absolutely my thing.

I do think a lot about the past.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.